According to Miriam Elder, the Moscow correspondent for The Guardian it seems that United Russia may get less than 50% of the votes, but this might not mean that they get less than 50% of seats in the parliament because of the 7% threshold for the smaller parties.

Not saying this applies to your specific case, but the more specific the skill-set you are looking for the more likely it is that it won't be available. So you might have to do as you did and buy it from somewhere or you have to train your own. As a side-note, a very specific skill-set can be a liability for an employee. If your exotic skills suddenly are obsoleted, you may be in trouble.

Maybe you guys should read these two:

http://k.web.umkc.edu/keltons/Papers/501/functional%20finance.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_finance#History_of_use

The businesses complain, because they want cheap labour. Therefore they will complain until there is an excess of people for a given field and they lower salaries, etc. So listening to their complaints is questionable.

I don't know about other countries, but in Finland all teachers graduate from university. In addition, there are comparatively very few immigrants in Finnish schools, so it is a lot easier to teach and to learn than in many other countries. Both children and teachers have like 10 weeks of summer vacation and a couple of weeks off during the school season.

If you work hard, it's actually probably best to give your brain a break during your free time, especially in regards to actual programming. I think it could be okay to try out some new things and read about new techniques and what not, but I don't think I'd be on fire at work if I spent my free time programming even more. I sometimes write proof-of-concept programs at home when I really feel like it, but rarely anything more. If I have to program at home it means that I sit too much in meetings at work and my need to express myself through code is unfulfilled. That, then, means that it's time for a new job where I get to actually write programs.

It would be better to report the issue to the user and provide links to well known antivirus companies. This way the user would be able to trust that the Feds aren't installing anything on their box while they may or may not remove what they tell the user... ;-)

I'm the same. GUI:s drive me crazy. You can't search them. I used Windows XP (company policy >_) in my previous job for two years and never learned the icons on the lower right corner. I had to take the mouse cursor over them every time to get the balloon help which tells you what that icon means. Running Linux on XP saved my sanity.

I get äöøåøæðüÐ, etc using caps lock as an extra modifier key. Consult the nearest xmodmap-file near to you..

Caffeine promotes anxiety. When getting stressed out, it's best to avoid caffeine altogether.

Good advice, but hard to follow after you've been laid off a couple of times even if you're very, very good.

The problem for me is that when I'm stressed out I can't make myself meditate. I just completely don't feel like it. However, I micro-sleep, instead. And it start very quickly when something stops me, like a meeting.

You can't do a proper job in all companies regardless of how good you are.

The manager can delegate the blame and the engineer gets fired.